Go for the Goal – Elana Meyers

The 2014 Olympic winter Games open in Sochi, Russia on February 7, 2014.  Exactly one month later, following the 17 days of initial competition, the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games open for 10 days.  What better time to use Mainstay’s Go for the Goal sermon series.  As support material for our Go for the Goal series, we begin a series of stories that spotlight Winter Olympians whose Goal is to honor Jesus Christ.

Her Twitter profile reads “Christ follower, Olympic & World Champ medalist in women’s bobsled, MBA student.”  Her name is Elana Meyers, and she has her priorities in order.  But it wasn’t always like that.  There was a time when bobsledding was not her sport and Jesus Christ was not her passion.  In fact, her biography on the Beyond the Ultimate website, explains that sports in general was her all-consuming passion; especially softball, which she played in both high school and college.

Elana, who hails from Douglasville, Georgia, where this writer once lived, had become so consumed with softball in her freshman year in college that she spiraled out of control by trying to be in control of her performance, her team’s success, and her life.  In her efforts to control her playing weight, she began a cycle of starvation, bingeing and purging.  As it usually does, this preoccupation with weight and controlling it (for whatever purpose it is intended to serve), drew Elana into the bondage of what she called “a vicious addiction.” 

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